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The German Emperor has been moving through Alsace- Lorraine and
The SpectatorBaden, nominally, to witness certain manmuvres, really, to say all the encouraging things he can in the provinces most exposed to French invasion. The Alsace-Lorrainers have...
The sudden death of General Miribel, either through a fall
The Spectatorfrom his horse or a stroke of apoplexy which produced the fall, is a great blow to the French Army. He was Chief of the Staff, and probably a first-rate soldier ; but it is not...
The latest news from Brazil is that the insurgent Fleet
The Spectatoris firing on Rio, preferring the destruction of the capital to a party defeat. The old Emperor would not fire even upon rebels; but Republicans, in South America at least, do...
Matters appear to have arrived at a crisis in Uganda
The Spectatorabout the middle of August. The able correspondent of the Times there, telegraphing vie/ Mombassa, on August 20th, reports that the dreaded third party, the Mahommedans, rose in...
The Young Czechs of Bohemia have carried their Home- rule
The Spectatoraspirations a step too far. As long as they only demanded that the Emperor should be crowned in Bohemia, as in Hun- gary, and that there should be a separate Bohemian Ministry,...
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorT HE French are in a fever of patriotism once more. The Russian Government has decided to station a squadron in the Mediterranean, and it is to pay a complimentary visit to...
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The Parnellites see the situation more clearly than the National
The SpectatorLiberal Federation. At their meeting on September 12th, Mr. Harrington stated plainly that he had great doubts whether the Lords would by-and-by accept the Bill, for "they had...
The debate in the House of Lords ended on Saturday
The Spectatorin the second reading of the Home-rule Bill being postponed to this day six months by a majority of ten to one (419 to 41). Out- side the Ministry there were practically no...
Lord HaIsbury made a telling reference to Lord Rosebery. If
The Spectatorhis speech was intended as an exhibition of tactics and diplomacy, it was a complete success, because if at some future time he were to say, spoke in favour of some measure of...
On Monday, in Committee of Supply, the House of Commons
The Spectatordiscussed the appointment of the Duke of Con- naught to the Aldershot command. Mr. Dalziel, who brought the matter before the Committee, pointed out that Aldershot is the great...
The silence of the Gladstonians as to the vote in
The Spectatorthe Lords against Home-rule has been remarkable, but at last Mr. Sehnadhorst and the rest of the officials of the National Liberal Federation have issued a manifesto. It is a...
The Gladstonian side was put with great oratorical ability by
The Spectatorthe Lord Chancellor ; but he, like the rest of his colleagues, defended the principle of Home-rule rather than the Bill before the House. Lord Herschel' did not, he said, feel...
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Surgeon-Major Parke, of the E min Relief Expedition—one of the
The Spectatorfew men who have gone through the hardships and horrors of an African expedition and yet retained their natural gentleness—died suddenly last Sunday night" when on a visit to...
During the week,inquests wore held on the bodies of two
The Spectatorof the men shot by the soldiers in the Featherstone riots. In the case of James Duggan, which was inquired into at Wakefield, the jury found a verdict of " justifiable...
The condition of things in the coal trade remains much
The Spectatorthe same, and the men show no signs of giving way, in spite of the distress which is everywhere apparent. Fortunately, how- ever, the rioting has not been renewed in the past...
It would appear from the third volume of the Census
The Spectatorof England and Wales, that the total number of both sexes em- ployed on the land, which in 1871 , was 1,153,544, and in 1881, 1,071,941, was in 1891, 980,278, showing a total...
The cholera is supposed to be declining in England, where,
The Spectatorthough isolated cases occur, it shows little disposition to spread. The greatest suspicion is now felt at Ashbourne, in Derbyshire, where no less than nine oases have been...
During the • debate on the Civil Service Estimates on
The SpectatorTuesday, Sir John Gorst asked the President of the Local Government Board to make a statement as to the proposal made by certain Guardians in the East End to acquire land for...
On Tuesday, Mr. Hanbury brought the• so-called " Cordite scandal"
The Spectatorbefore the House. According to him, Government officials had taken advantage of the work of private inventors in respect of the smokeless powder adopted by the War Office. We...
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TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The SpectatorTHE LORDS AND THE RADICALS. W E are by no means devoted to the House of Lords: It needs reform greatly, so as to prevent rushes of country squires from overwhelming the...
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THE SOLDIERS AND THE PEOPLE.
The Spectator.I T is the fashion to abuse Democracy, but Democracy has done one thing for us,—it has enabled us to put down violence and disorder without causing any outburst of mistaken...
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THE SEED-GROUND OF CHOLERA.
The SpectatorW HETHER the cholera really first appeared in Lord Hastings's camp, or whether it only first became visible there, and had been long claiming its victims in secret throughout...
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THE NEW DANGER REPORTED FROM INDIA. L ORD HARRIS'S little speech
The Spectatoron the recent cow-killing riots in Bombay is not, to Anglo-Indians, pleasant reading. The Governor of Bombay, though no doubt his character as a statesman is obscured by his...
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THE LEADERS IN THE LORDS. T HE speech in which Lord
The SpectatorRosebery made his very lame apology for Home-rule, and that in which Lord Salisbury answered him, and wound up the case for the Opposition, form together a very complete...
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THE LEVITY OF GR THEESS TRADES-UNION CON.
The SpectatorW E have repeatedly pointed out, as one of the most dangerous symptoms in modern society, the extreme levity exhibited by a section of the cultivated in their thinking. Western...
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THE JACQUERIE IN THE NORTH.
The SpectatorT HE kind of Jacquerie which has prevailed in the mining districts, both of England and Wales, for the last ten days, suggests many thoughts. One of them is the folly of those...
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THE FACULTY OF SPELLING. T HAT fine old question—long in bottle
The Spectatorand twice to the East Indies—" Ought putting two c's ' and one ' ' in ' recommend,' to disqualify an eager and high- spirited youth from serving in the Army ? " has, during the...
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CABMEN AND THEIR GRIEVANCES. T HE deputation of cabmen which waited
The Spectatorthe other day upon the Home Secretary, and the subsequent discus- sion which has appeared in the columns of the daily Press, will perhaps serve at least to attract public...
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LONDON TREES.
The SpectatorIR HERBERT M &X WELL, in an interesting letter to 0 the Times, gives the result of his observations of the effects of the dry summer upon the London trees. Those which have...
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CORRESPONDENCE.
The SpectatorTHE WHITE CITY OF CHICAGO. " GOING to Chicago ! How I pity you!" Such was the exclamation which never failed to greet the announcement of our intended departure ; and it was...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
The SpectatorMR. MORLEY'S SPEECH. [To MR EPITQR Ow TILE " SPECTATOR. " ] Slit,—Mr. John Morley, in his speech on the third reading of the Home-rule Bill, is reported to have said: "But all...
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GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTATOR."3 SIR,—You mention, in the Spectator of September 9th, that in the voting on the third reading of the Home-rule Bill, the majority against the...
SEPARATISM.
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR 01 THE " SPECTATOR.") Sin,—In his recent speech at Newcastle our English Separatist, Mr. John Morley, Mr. Gladstone's Irish Secretary, had the amusing audacity to...
THE UNIONIST CASE.
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTATOR."] SIE,—Your correspondents, G." and " C. F. O.," as well as " C. G. C.," are evidently not aware that the Liberal Unionist Association, 31...
AGRICULTURAL DEPRESSION.
The Spectator[To TUE II0ITOIE OF THE " SFEOTATJR.") Srn,—In your short review of Mr. Richard Heath's article on "Agricultural Depression in East Anglia," in the Spectator of September 9th,...
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BOOKS.
The SpectatorYOUTH.* AMONG the qualities which distinguish French writers is the power of investing ideas with concrete form and vivid colour. Few nations can point to such a record of noble...
PLAGUES IN NATURE.
The Spectator[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR." ] Sin,—Your correspondent of August 24th gives some very interesting particulars, personally observed, concerning the usefulness of frogs in...
" SODY AND BOUL."
The SpectatorLTO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sin,—Your correspondent, in the Spectator of September 9th, Francis W. Holmes, has added another to the amusing tale of verbal...
ENGLAND AND THE SUEZ CANAL.
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR,"] SIR, It is Mr. Milner's argument, not mine, to which your reviewer (Spectator of September 9th) of my article on "England's Right to the...
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SCHULTZ'S OLD TESTAMENT THEOLOGY.* THIS work has been before the
The SpectatorGerman public for nearly a quarter of a century; it has been brought up to date in suc- cessive editions, and it still holds its place as the best complete account of Old...
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MELCHIOR DE VOGUE.* VISCOUNT E. M. DE VOGOi, diplomatist and
The Spectatormember of the French Academy, is completely revealed in each of the volumes of collected essays and reviews, of which Hewes d'Hiateire is the latest. Keenly attentive to the...
ROYAL LETTERS TO OXFORD.* Mn. OGLE explains that the term
The Spectator"Royal Letters" is used, as being a fairly approximate description, for a variety of documents, such as Charters, Inquisitions, Warrants, Orders in Council, &e. Even private...
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AMERICAN HUMOUR,* THAT most enterprising of publishers, Mr. Walter Scott,
The Spectatorset himself some years ago, as every one ought to know, the Herculean task of collecting and, as it were, bottling the " humour " of various countries for the private...
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AGRARIAN TENURES.* SHAW-LNFEVRE has produced a sober'and statesmanlike account of
The Spectatorthe existing land-systems of England, Ireland, and the Highlands of Scotland, and the reforms he advocates are in a high degree reasonable and practical. Of the English portion...
CURRENT LITERATURE.
The SpectatorReminiscences of Australian Ear l y Life. By a Pioneer. (A. P. Marsden.)—There are few pretensions to literary form in these reminiscences of a pioneer, but their very stiffness...
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Official Year-Book of Scientific and Learned Societies. Tenth Annual Issue.
The Spectator(C. Griffin and Co.)—The now feature of this year's issue is a "Chronicle of the work done during , the past year " by the Societies. These are divided according to the subjects...
Explanatory Analysis of St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans. By
The SpectatorH. P. Liddon, D.D. (Longmans.)—In 1876 Dr. Liddon printed some papers on the Epistle, and distributed them to the students who had attended his lectures. Subsequently Dr. Liddon...
Back to the Land. By Harold C. Moore. (Methuen.)—This is
The Spectatorone of the series of " Social Questions of To-day," and certainly deals with a subject as important and, we may add, as complicated as any. Mr. Moore is cautious in his...
The Ndladivar : Pour Hundred Quatrains in Tamil. By the
The SpectatorRev. G. N. Pope, M.A. (Clarendon Press.) —Dr. Pope translates and annotates his Tamil classics, explains its literary history in a general introduction, and adds a concordance...
Primer of Italian Literature. By F. J. Snell, M.A. (Clarendon
The SpectatorPress.)—It is difficult to say whether one ought to criticise this book from the point of view of the student or of the reader.. Taking the latter, one would wish to have more...
The Poetical Works of John Gay. Edited, with Notes and
The Spectatora Life, by John Underhill. 2 vole, (Lawrence and Bullen.)—These volumes, part of the "Muses' Library," a series which we do not remember to have seen, are a good piece of work,...
Plain Advice about Life-Insurance. By A. J. Wilson. (Long- mans.)—This
The Spectatorvolume scarcely fulfils the promise of its title. The general effect upon a reader would be to hinder him from inquiry at all. "Life-insurance is, and must be, an expensive...
Mountaineering. By Claude Wilson, M.D. (Bell and Sons.)— This is
The Spectatora volume of the " Ill-England Series," and as likely to be as useful as any, more useful than most. No one can learn cricket or any other sport from reading about it, though a...
Our Indian Protectorate. By Charles Lewis Tupper. (Long- mans.)—We should
The Spectatorrecommend the reader to begin his perusal of this volume with chapters xii.-xv., in which " Native Rule" is discussed historically, and with a view to actually existing con-...
The work of the colony at Bielefeld is one of
The Spectatorthe subjects treated n The Epileptic and Crippled Child and Adult, a volume of the " Charity Organisation Series." (Swan Sonnensohein and Co.)—The business aspect of the...
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Ancient India, 2000 B.C.-800 A.D. By Romesh Chunder Dutt. (Longman.)—This
The Spectatoris the first volume of a series of "Epochs of Indian History," which is to appear under the editorship of Mr. John Adams. It contains a sketch of the five epochs into which the...